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I think many of you know that when Mao Ze Dong was alive, Bibles were not permitted inside Red China. Insetad, Mao's own version of religious literature was distributed to people.

One woman, in a Chinese prison when Mao was alive, was reading her Bible. A guard noticed that, took it away from her, and gave her Mao's book.

Now that the Chinese are embracing Christianity, they are now printing Bibles. So when one goes to a religious book store, he/she would check to see if the Bible he/she bought is made in China.

No joke. But I am glad to see what the Chinese are doing in a way.

Wow, thats great news.

I'd rather read Mao's Little Red Book. Unfortunately, you can't purchase it in book stores in capitalist United States. Perhaps it is unamerican. Everyone's trying to ban something due to being counter-revolutionary, unpatriotic, or blasphemous or something of the sort it seems.

Yeah, but you've got to read it right to left. I heard when you do that, demons will appear.

I can't believe you can't even get it online. I picked up a copy when I was in China in 1997.

Wise ass

Is that Mao's book looked like? A little red book? Well, if in that time period there was a list of religious materials, it could go like this:

1. The Holy Bible (no matter what translation there is)
2. The Koran
3. The Book of Mormon
4. Mao's book.
5. Hebrew

And I'm sure there are others.

Spoken by someone who has obviously never listened to the Beatles White album backwards.

Obviously.

Actually I think Mao's little red book of quotations is the second most popular book on Earth second only to the Bible. You would think you could go to your local Barnes and Noble (or pratically any source other than to ebay) to buy the book. I can't even get it at my library which is one of the largest in the country (Columbus metropolitan library system). Is the material really that subversive? I can't get a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook either.

The only place in Ohio where I can just go and get practically anything written by Mao is in University Libraries, available only to students and faculty (as if the public can't be 'trusted' with the material). And even then I can't find his book of quotations.

For a country that supposedly prides itself on free thought and equal access to the exchange of ideas, we sure do have a lot of banned books, and movements to ban books. I'd say we're not that much better than the Chinese in that department.